David Suchet
Born: 1946-05-02 in London, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
David Suchet, OBE, CBE (born 2 May 1946), is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognized for his RTS- and BPG award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British TV mini-drama “The Way We Live Now”, alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza, and a 1991 British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) nomination. He is known for his role as Agatha Christie's great detective Hercule Poirot in the long-running British TV dramatic series “Poirot”. Suchet's older brother, John Suchet, is a British television presenter and newsreader.
Filmography
2025
- The Au Pair as George
- Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet as Self - Presenter
2024
- Poirot and More: A Retrospective as Himself
2023
2019
- His Dark Materials as Kaisa (voice)
2018
- More Than Words as Self
- Press as George Emmerson
2017
- American Assassin as Director Stansfield
- Urban Myths as Salvador Dali
- Decline and Fall as Dr. Fagan
- Concorde as Self - Narrator
2016
- Peter Pan Goes Wrong as Narrator
- Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Oberon
- This Changed Everything as Narrator
2015
- Capitaine Marleau as Herbert White
- The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage as Lady Bracknell
- David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Peter as Self - Presenter
2014
- Long Day's Journey Into Night as James Tyrone
- Effie Gray as Mr. Ruskin
2013
- The Jesus Storybook Bible as Narrator
- The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
- Being Poirot as Narrator
2012
- The Hollow Crown as Duke of York
- David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Paul as Self - Host
- Starring Sigmund Freud
- David Suchet: People I Have Shot as Self - Presenter
2011
- All My Sons as Joe Keller
- Great Expectations as Mr. Jaggers
- Hidden as Sir Nigel Fountain
- Perspectives
- The Story of Jesus as Narrator
- The Jesus Storybook Bible as Narrator
2010
- Going Postal as Reacher Gilt
- Agatha Christie's Poirot：Murder on the Orient Express as Hercule Poirot
- David Suchet on the Orient Express as Himself - Presenter
2009
- Act of God as Dr. Benjamin Cisco
- Diverted as Samuel Stearn
2008
- Q&A as Self - Panellist
- The Bank Job as Lew Vogel
2007
- Flood as Deputy Prime Minister Campbell
- Maxwell as Robert Maxwell
- Inundación
2006
- The One Show as Self
- Flushed Away as Rita's Dad (voice)
- Arthur and the Invisibles as Narrator (voice)
- Dracula as Abraham Van Helsing
2005
- Doctor Who as The Landlord
- Extinct
2004
- Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- A Bear Named Winnie as General Hallholland
- Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets
2003
- Foolproof as Leo Gillette
- The In-Laws as Jean-Pierre Thibodoux
- Henry VIII as Thomas Wolsey
2002
- NCS: Manhunt as DI John Borne
- Live from Baghdad as Naji Al-Hadithi
- The Stanford Prison Experiment as Narrator (voice)
2001
- Richard & Judy as Self
- Victoria & Albert as Baron Christian Friedrich Stockmar, MD
- Murder in Mind as Edward Palmer
- The Way We Live Now as Augustus Melmotte
2000
- RKO 281 as Louis B. Mayer
- Sabotage!! as Napoleón
1999
- Wing Commander as Capt. Jason Sansky
1998
- A Perfect Murder as Mohamed Karaman
- Seesaw as Morris Price
1997
- Sunday as Oliver / Matthew Delacorta
- Solomon as Joab
- Solomon as Joab
- The Phoenix and the Carpet as The Phoenix (voice)
- The Phoenix and the Carpet as The Phoenix (voice)
1996
- Executive Decision as Nagi Hassan
- Moïse as Aaron
- Moses as Aaron
- Deadly Voyage as Vlachos
1995
- Moses as Aaron
- Cruel Train as Ruben Roberts
1993
- Der Fall Lucona as Rudi Waltz
1992
- The Secret Agent as Alfred Verloc
1991
- The Trouble With Agatha Christie as Self - Actor
1990
- Separation as Joe
- Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death as Shakespeare
- Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait as Self
- The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship as Narrator (voice)
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Hercule Poirot
- When the Whales Came as Will
- Long Ago and Far Away
- Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1988
- A World Apart as Muller
- To Kill a Priest as Bishop
- The Play on One as Joe
- The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Leopold Bloom
- James Joyce's 'Ulysses' as Leopold Bloom
1987
- Cause Célèbre as T.J. O'Connor
- Harry and the Hendersons as Jacques Lafleur
- The Last Innocent Man as Jonathan Gault
- The Dame Edna Experience as Self
1986
- Iron Eagle as Minister of Defense Col. Akir Nakesh
- Murrow as William Shirer
1985
- Thirteen at Dinner as Insp. Japp
- The Falcon and the Snowman as Alex
- A Song for Europe as Steve Dyer
- Blott on the Landscape
- Mussolini: The Untold Story as Dino Grandi
- Blott on the Landscape as Blott
- Theatre Night
1984
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Buller
- The Little Drummer Girl as Mesterbein
- Master of the Game as André d'Usseau
- Oxbridge Blues as Colin
- Playing Shakespeare
- Freud as Freud
1983
- Red Monarch as Beria
- Trenchcoat as Inspector Stagnos
- Reilly: Ace of Spies as Inspector Tsientsin
- Being Normal as Bill
1982
- Timewatch as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Missionary as Corbett
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Clopin Trouillefou
1981
- The Cause as Reger
1980
- A Tale of Two Cities as John Barsad
- Oppenheimer as Edward Teller
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Yves Drouard
1978
- An Audience with... as Self
1977
- The Professionals as Krivas
1972
- The Protectors as Detective
1970
- Play for Today as Reger
1965
- Public Eye as Martin Kulman
1949
- The BAFTA Awards as Self